Appliance used in combination with gas-generating plants.



No. 897,362. PATENTED SEPT. 1, 1908.

A. L. GALUSHA. I APPLIANCE USED IN COMBINATION WITH GAS GENERATING PLANTS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 4, 1907.

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UNITED srArns PATENT onrron.

ALBERT L. GALUSHA, OF DOROHES'IER, MASSACHUSETTS.

APPLIANCE USED IN COMBINATION WITH GAS-GENERATING PLANTS.

Application filed December 4, 1907.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT L. GALUsHA, of Dorchester, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Appliances Used in Combination with Gas-Gencrating Plants; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in gas generating plants and more particularly to appliances used in combination therewith,- one object of the invention being to provide means to vary the feed of fluid to a gas producer in such manner as to maintain a uniform temperature in the producer and the generation of gas of uniform quality, regardless of changes in the rate at which the gas is being made, and utilized as motive fluid in an engine or other translating mechanism.

A further object is to provide means for regulating the feed of water to a gas producer, in such manner that it will be fed to the producer in proportions commensurate with the volume or weight of gas utilized as motive fluid in an engine. I

A further object is to provide means whereby the volume or weight of fluid. fed to a gas producer, will maintain a definite relation to the volume or weight of gas flowing from the producer, and so that the feed of fluid to the producer will vary in definite proportions to the volume or weight of gas flowing from the roducer.

Afurther object is to provide means whereby the amount of gas flowing from a gas producer to a translating mechanism, and the amount of fluid fed to the gas producer, can be simultaneously varied, whereby the feeding of fluid to the producer will always bear a definite relation to the amount and quality of gas utilized as motive fluid in the translating mechanism.

Afurther object is to provide means whereby the feeding of fluid to a gas producer will automatically vary with the speed of the engine in which the gas from the producer is utilized.

A further object is to provide means connected with the valve which controls the passage of gas from a producer to an engine, whereby the operation of said valve will be Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908.

Serial No. 405,089.

made to control directly, the amount of aqueous fluid or fluid flowing to the gas producer.

A further object is to provide means where by the supply of fluid to a gas producer will be controlled by the operation of the firing mechanism of an engine, so that the amount of aqueous or other fluid fed to the engine will vary as ignition in the engine is advanced or retarded.

With these objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts as hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation, partly in section, illustrating my improvements, and Figs. 2 and 3 are plan Views.

While my improvements are adaptable for use in connection with various forms of trans lating mechanism; such as a pump, a fan or exhauster which might be used to cause a proper circulation of fluid through a producer, or an internal combustion gas engine,they are particularly adapted for use in connection with the latter. I have therefore illustrated the improvements and will describe the same in connection with parts ofa gas engine,-1 representing the shaft of the engine, and 2 the pipe which conducts gas from a gas producer (not shown) to the cylinder of the en gine, and in this pipe a throttle or controlling valve 3 is located.

4 represents a water pump which may be of any preferred construction and provided with an inlet pipe 5 from any convenient source of supply and with an outlet pipe 6 to conduct water to the va orizer of a gas producer. The casing of t e pump 4 sustains a standard 7, upon the upper end of which a rocking-bar or walking-beam 8 is supported. One arm of the walking-beam 8 is connected, by means of a link 9, with a crank-arm 10 on the engine shaft 1. Upon the other arm of the walking-beam a tubular block or collar 11 is loosely mounted and has pivotally connected thereto the upper end of a rod or link 12, the lower end of said link being adjustably attached to the plunger 13 of the pump 4. From this construction it will be seen that motion will be transmitted from the engine shaft 1 to reciprocate the plunger of the pump 4, and that by moving the block or col- .lar 11 toward or away from the pivotal support of the walking-beam 8, the stroke of the pump 4 can be changed and the amount of water supplied by said pump to the gas producer, correspondingly varied. The controlling valve 3 is provided with an operating lever 14 and to one arm of this lever, one end of a rod or link 15 is pivotally connected. A rod or link 16 is attached at one end to the block or collar 11 and at its other end to the rod or link 15 at a point somewhat removed from the pivotal the valve operating lever 14.

When the lever 14 is operated to increase the degree of opening of the valve 3 for the purpose of permitting an increased amount gas to flow from the producer to the engine, motion will be transmitted through the medium of the rods or links 15 and 16 to the block or collar 11 and the latter will be caused to move on the walking-beam in a directionaway from the pivotal support of the latter, and thus the stroke of the pump 4 will be increased and consequently the amount of water fed by this pump to the producer will be correspondingly increased so that the output of gas from the producer will be augmented. to an extent commensurate with the demand upon the producer incident to the opening of the controlling valve 3. It is apparent that when the valve 3 is operated in the reverse direction to restrict the flow of gas from the producer, the block or collar 11 will be moved in a direction toward the pivotal support of the walkingbeam and thus the stroke of the pump plunger 13 will be shortened, resulting in diminishing the amount of water fed to the producer and correspondingly reducing the output of gas from the latter.

The rod or link 15 hereinbefore described, is provided in proximity to one end with an elongated slot 17, through which a pin 18 passes to connect said rod or link with a hand-lever 19 secured to the timer shaft 20 of the engine. The timer may be of any approved construction and its operation to regulate the igniting or sparking mechanism of the engine is well understood and needs no specific description herein. By the connection of the rod or link 15 with the timershaft, through the medium of the hand-lever 19, it will be readily seen that when said hand-lever is moved in a direction to effect an advance in the ignition of the charge, the block or collar 11 will, through the medium of the link 16, be moved in a direction away from the pivotal support of the walkingbeam 8, and hence the stroke of the pump piston 13 will be increased and the amount of water fed by said pump to the producer will be correspondingly augmented so that the output of the producer will be increased to meet the increased demand of the engine on account of the increased rapidity of the eX- plosions therein. A reverse movement of connection of the latter with without departing the lever 19 will of course produce the opposite result to that above explained. When the lever 19 is moved as above explained to adjust the timer, the valve 3 will also be operated to either increase or decrease the degree of opening of the same.

It will be readily understood that when the speed of the engine increases, the speed of the stroke of the pump piston 13 will also increase and cause more water to be fed to the producer and the latter thereby made to generate the additional amount of gas necessary for the operation of the engine at the advance speed. When the speed of the engine diminishes the reverse action will take place.

With my improvements the amount of water fed to the producer to supply the latter with aqueous fluid, will be commensurate with the amount of gas drawn-off from the producer, but the mechanism can be set to give less than a proportionate amount of water on very light loads and thus avoid cooling off the fire too much. If desired, one arm of the walking beam might be dispensed with and all attachments made to the other arm. While the valve 3 and the timer may be adjusted simultaneously when the lever 19 is moved, the valve 3 and the timer may either be moved without moving the other. On land, the engine governor would be connected with the valve 3, and in some cases to the timer also, and so control and change one or both of them.

Various slight changes might be made in the details of construction of my invention from the spirit thereof or limiting its scope and hence I do not Wish to restrict myself to the precise details herein set forth.

' Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure byLetters- Patent, is,-

1. The combination with means for controlling the passage of gas from a gas producer, of means for feeding fluid to the producer in proportion to the varying amount of gas leaving the producer, and means cooperating with said controlling means and feeding means for varying both simultaneously.

2. The combination with a gas engine shaft and a valve for controlling the passage of gas from a gas producer to the engine, of a pump connected with and operated by the engine shaft for forcing fluid to the gas producer, and means for effecting adjustment of the stroke of the pump in accordance with the amount of gas flowing from the producer to the engine.

3. The combination with an engine shaft and a valve for controlling the passage of gas from a gas producerto the engine, of a pump for supplying fluid to the gas producer and devices connected with said valve for adj usting the stroke of the pump.

4. The combination with an engine shaft for controlling the passage of gas to the engine, of a pump and a valve from a gas producer gas producer and devices connected with said valve for adjusting the stroke of the pump.

5. The combination with an engine shaft and a valve for controlling the passage of gas from a gas producer to the engine, of a pump for supplying fluid to the gas producer, connections between the engine shaft and the pump piston for operating the latter and j valve and connections between said hand operated device and the movable collar on the rocking-bar.

9. The combination with a gas engine shaft, means for supplying gas to the engine from a gas producer and turning mechanism, of a pump for supplying fluid to the gas producer, devices connected with the engine shaft for operating said pump, and means connected with the timing mechanism of the engine for adjusting the stroke of the means actuated simultaneously with the opl pump piston.

eration of said valve to adjust the stroke of said piston.

6. The combination with an engine shaft and a valve for controlling the passage of gas from a gas producer to the engine, of a pump, a rocking-bar connected with and operated by the engine shaft, an adjustable connection between said rocking-bar and the piston of the pump, and means actuated by the movements of said valve to effect adjustments of said adjustable connection between the rocking-barand the pump-piston.

7. The combination with a gas engine shaft and a valve for controlling the passage of gas from a gas producer to the engine, of a pump for supplying fluid to the gas producer, rocking-bar, a connection between one end of said rocking-bar and the engine shaft, a collar adjustable on the other arm of the rocking-bar, a connection between said collar and the pump piston and means connecting said collar with said valve.

8. The combination with an engine shaft and a valve for controlling the passage of gas from a gas producer to the engine, of a pump for supplying fluid to the gas producer, a rocking-bar, connections between one arm of said bar and the engine shaft, a collar movable on the other arm of the rocking-bar, a link connecting said collar with the piston of the pump, a hand operated device for said j 10. The combination with a gas engine shaft a valve for controlling the passage of gas from a gas producer to the engine and i timing mechanism, of a pump for supplying fluid to the gas producer, means connected with the engine shaft for actuating the pump,

l and means connected with saidvalve and also with the timing mechanism for adjusting the stroke of said pump.

11. The combination with a gas engine shaft, a valve for controlling the passage of gas from a gas producer to the engine cylinder andtiming mechanism, of a pumpfor supplying fluid to the gas producer, arockingbar having one arm connected with and operated by the engine shaft, a movable member on the other arm of said rocking bar, a link connecting said movable member with the piston of the pump, a hand-lever secured to said valve, a hand-lever secured to the shaft of the timing mechanism, a rod or link connecting said hand-levers, and a connection between said rod or link and the movable member on the rocking-bar.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscrib ing witnesses.

ALBERT L. GALUSHA. Witnesses:

CHARLES H. DONAI-IUE, JAMEs H. DUFFY. 

